Presto Music

Presto Music

About this app

Presto Music is the specialist music streaming service built for classical and jazz lovers, by classical and jazz lovers. The Presto Music app has been built to make your own personal journey in music as intuitive as possible, and offers the highest possible fidelity on any streaming service. Whether you want to listen to old favourites, discover unfamiliar composers and their works, or follow the latest emerging artists, let the Presto Music app be your guide.


- Extensive catalogue of over 200,000 classical and jazz albums available in CD-quality sound.
- Search engine built for classical music, allowing easy discoverability of composers, works and artists.
- Daily articles and interviews from our in-house team of classical and jazz experts
- Create your own collection of albums, composers, artists and labels, and bookmark articles to read later.
- Each composer, work, genre, artist and label has a dedicated page, full of recommendations, new releases, and related articles.
- 15,000+ award citations and recommended recordings and 63,000+ reviews from trusted sources like Gramophone, International newspapers and the BBC.
- Hi-Res Audio (up to 24-bit, 192kHz) for over 34,000 albums.
- Digital Booklets for over 70,000 albums.
- Download albums to listen to offline.

For over 20 years Presto Music has evolved to be recognised globally as the most authoritative source for classical and jazz recordings, with an archive of thousands of editorials, interviews and recommendations. After many years in the making and listening to the needs of its customers, Presto Music now brings all of this expertise to the world of streaming.

Ratings and reviews

I love listening to music on this service; it sounds great. But the app is TERRIBLE*, and for the exorbitant price of the service, the app must be both impeccable AND under continuous improvement (but it hasn't been updated in over two months). *It keeps playing when you disconnect Bluetooth and has no settings to change this; there is no useful filtering; you can't organize your 'Collection'.

The app seems to work well with the Presto music library. It has a fatal flaw, though. It has no equalizer and didn't work with any equalizer app I tried. Without some shaping, the sound in my expensive wired earbuds is too tinny. (With proper shaping, as in the Poweramp player I use on the device to play sound files, I get great sound.) I will probably cancel after the free month.

Good library! Great sound quality options! Basically competent search. Buggy: often freezes or doesn't play. When viewing my library, I can sort by album title (marginal because there is no standard format for album titles, but better than Idagio) but if I touch anything at all, it immediately reverts to sorting by most recent, tiny album-cover icons. Can control whether to download over mobile data, but can't queue "download this the next time there is WiFi". Needs much usability work!

What's new

Adds message for outdated API version
Support dynamic font sizing for iOS
Streamer control fixes
Fix deep linking